Tooth Fairy

So . . . how many times have I come back to this blog and said, "Oops, I guess it's been a while?"  Well, however many it has been (don't tell me), add one more.  On the upside, it's been less than a year since my last post.

I got a new power cord for my old laptop (the left side of the screen is cracked and black, but 80% of the screen still works, so it's still mostly usable) and may actually blog again now that I'm on it.  It is SO MUCH EASIER, in my opinion, to blog from a computer than from a cell phone.

One of the reasons for fewer blog posts is because there has been less knitting.  I completed only 14 projects in 2017.  (Only one of those was for myself, and I posted about that as my only posts last year. More selfish knitting!!!)

The first project I made last year was this:


She's a tooth fairy!  Jo had her first wiggly teeth last year in February (she was five) so I made a little tooth fairy.  Her apron is a pocket.  She's based on the pattern "Tiny Topsy the Tooth Fairy" but I modified her to have legs instead of being a topsy turvy doll, and, of course, the modifications to the apron to have a pocket.  Jo is now six and has four more wiggly teeth (two that could come out any time now), so our little fairy will be quite busy.

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